Mission

Vision: All of New York State’s children and youth will experience high-quality expanded learning and development opportunities that support their success in school, college, work, and life.Mission: To strengthen the capacity and commitment of communities, programs, and professionals to increase access to high-quality programs and services beyond the traditional classroom.Overarching Network Goal: To build an effective and integrated statewide system of high-quality afterschool, summer, and other expanded learning opportunities (ELOs). An effective system provides a continuum of support that ensures the academic, social, emotional, and healthy development of children from birth through young adulthood.

Objectives:

To coordinate resources and existing capacity in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in service to afterschool and other expanded learning programs.

To sustain and expand local and state public and private support for afterschool, summer, and expanded learning opportunities.

To build the capacity of afterschool, summer, and expanded learning programs across individuals, organizations, and systems.

To see the widespread adoption and use of standards for program quality by a range of afterschool programs and stakeholders statewide.